As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

I posted on here yesterday about my boot disk messing up when I upgraded to RH 7.3 from 7.2. Well I dual boot with WinXP, so I was unable to get into Linux after I discovered there was something wrong ...

Before you can partition your disk you'll need to squeeze your Windows partition to free up some disk space for the new partition. Head to the Disk Management tool, and right-click your main partition ...

Linux doesn't have quite as many disk cloning apps as Windows, but but you can do just about anything you can imagine with the super powerful Clonezilla live CD. Clonezilla's biggest advantage is its ...